The clinical laboratory was developed under a medical commission
composed of: Dr. Walter B. James, President of the New York Academy of
Medicine; Dr. Charles W. Pilgrim, Chairman, New York State Hospital
Commission; Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, Director of the National Committee
for Mental Hygiene; Dr. G. H. Kirby, Director of the Psychiatric
Institute of the State of New York; Dr. Isham G. Harris, Superintendent
of the Brooklyn State Hospital; Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald, Alienist, and
Dr. W. F. Brewer, Surgeon. Provision has been made on the first floor
for a modern X-ray apparatus and its various accessories; three rooms
for the physician in charge of the venereal examinations; a surgical
laboratory; rooms fitted for the examinations of the eye, ear and
throat, psychiatric and psychological examining room, dental operating
room and laboratory, and a laboratory for the use of the staff working
in the diagnosis and examination rooms.
On the second floor is a quantitative and qualitative laboratory; a
museum, a recording room, a library and lecture rooms, and on the third
floor are surgical wards, subdivided for major and minor operative
cases, together with medical wards, so planned as to have ordinary and
chronic medical cases in separate divisions. The hospital is to be
freely used for detailed observation as well as for treatment.
The fourth floor contains a complete operating department with two
operating rooms, one for major and the other for minor operations, each
having separate sterilization facilities, together with preparation,
etherizing and recovery rooms, while the remainder of the floor is
given up to rooms for the male nurses and a convalescent solarium.